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THE PROCLAMATIONS OF IRELAND, 1660-1820. Set of Five Volumes:
Volume I. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1820; Volume II. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of James II, 1685-1691; Proclamations Issued During the Reigns of William III, 1689-1702, and Mary II, 1689-94; Proclamations Issued During the Reign of Anne, 1702-1714; Volume III. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George I, 1714-27; Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George II, 1727-60; Volume IV. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George III, Part I. 1760-90; Volume V. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George III, Part II, 1791-1820.
Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2014. Five volumes, 8vo., pp.lxxxii,483; lxii,742;lxii,567;lxi,552;lxii,596, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; mild pencilling to Introduction (Volume I), else a fine set, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets.
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THE PUTNEY DEBATES OF 1647 The Army, The Levellers, and the English State.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.xii,297, paperback; lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
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THE RADICAL DUKE Career and Correspondence of Charles Lennox third Duke of Richmond
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. 8vo., pp. 262, hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to edges not affecting contents, internally clean, light rubbing to spine and extremities, gilt faded, a couple of spots and a few very light surface scratches to boards, overall a very good copy, no dust-jacket.
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"THE READINESS OF THE PEOPLE":
The Formation and Emergence of the Army of the Fairfaxes, 1642-3. Borthwick Papers No. 92
York: University of York, 1997. 8vo., pp. 27, pamphlet, pictorial paper wrappers; very slightly rubbed, a near-fine copy.
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THE RENAISSANCE IN SCOTLAND.
Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture, Offered to John Durkan. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 54.
Leiden: E.J. Brill. 8vo., pp.xxiv,428,(iii), red cloth, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE RHETORIC OF SENSIBILITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE.
Cambridge University Press. 8vo., pp.xi,222, black hardcover, gilt; light bump to upper edge of front board, occasional pencil-marking to margins, else fresh and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE RISE OF A VICTORIAN IRONOPOLIS: Middlesbrough and Regional Industrialization.
Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011. 8vo., pp.xvii,230, hardcover, b/w plates, maps and figures and tables; pencil scoring to a few pages, extensive pencil notes to rear endpapers, otherwise a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE RISE OF THE EGALITARIAN FAMILY; Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-Century England.
London: Academic Press, 1978. 8vo., pp.xviii,324, brown faux leather, orange lettering, b/w frontispiece and illustrations; ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, a few light marks to boards, a very good copy in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with light sunning to spine.
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THE ROMANTIC STORY OF THE HIGHLAND GARB AND THE TARTAN.
With Appendix Dealing With the Kilt in the Great War.
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1924. Limited edition of 575 copies, 4to., pp.208, uncut, bevelled blue cloth, gilt, with heraldic emblem in gilt to front board, colour frontispiece and colour and b/w plates with tissue guards; webbing occasionally visible between leaves, staining to front endpapers, light wear to extremities, light sunning to spine, a good copy, which is internally clean.
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THE ROUS ROLL.
Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1980. 8vo., pp.xviii(Introduction),unpaginated facsimile of the 1859 edition, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; light foxing to edges of text block, not affecting margins, else a very good copy indeed, in a vg+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND.
The Antiquary’s Books Series.
London: Methuen and Co, 1905. First edition, 8vo., pp.372,(4)adverts, uncut, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 24 further b/w plates and 23 in-text illustrations; small ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, light foxing to upper margins, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear at headband, light partial sunning to cloth, a very good copy.
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THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AND THE KING’S AFFINITY.
Service, Politics and Finance in England 1360-1413.
New Haven: Yale University Press. 8vo., pp.viii,327, red cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, staining to lower corner of front free endpaper, otherwise very good, in partially sunned unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SATIRICAL GAZE. Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England.
Oxford, 2004. 8vo., pp.xviii,281, navy hardcover, gilt, 87 b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE 1500-1720.
Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland.
East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000. 8vo.,pp. 308, hardcover, gilt, b/w figures, graphs and tables; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE SECULAR CLERGY IN ENGLAND, 1066-1216.
Oxford University Press, 2014. 8vo., pp.xiii,422, navy hardcover, gilt, 8 colour plates; a fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SECURITY SERVICE 1908-1945. The Official History.
Kew: Public Record Office, 1999. 8vo., pp.(iv),442, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SOUTHWOLD DIARY OF JAMES MAGGS 1818-1867. [Two Volumes.] Volume I: 1818-1848. Volume II: 1848-1867. (Suffolk Records Society Volumes XXV and XXVI)
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, for the Suffolk Records Society, 1983. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.ix,149;vii,183, olive hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w frontispiece, 10 further b/w illustrations to volume I, 5 further b/w illustrations to volume II; volume I contains ink inscription to front free endpaper verso, and is very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, volume II contains editor’s ink inscription to front free endpaper verso and signature to title and is very lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, both in unclipped pictorial dust jackets which are lightly shelf-worn and very slightly soiled but otherwise very good.
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THE ST. ALBANS CHRONICLE, Volume I. 1376-1394. Volume II 1394-1422. The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.cxviii,1030,c,888, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and two further b/w plates to Vol I; a fine set, in vg unclipped dust-jackets, which are sunned to spine and are now in protective covers.
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THE STORY OF PETERLOO, WRITTEN FOR THE CENTENARY, AUGUST 16, 1919. Pre-print of an Article which is to appear in “The Bulletin of the John Reynlds Library”, April- October, 1919.
Manchester: At the University Press, 1919. 8vo.,pp. 45, printed wrappers, b/w illustrations, b/w fold-out plan; toned to title page and margins throughout, wrappers heavily rubbed, chipped to extremities and spine, with loss to head and foot of spine, toned and foxed to margins and toned and cracked to spine, contents still firm, a good copy.
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THE STREETS OF LONDON: From the Great Fire to the Great Stink.
London: River Oram Press, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xvi,256, paperback, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins, a very good copy.
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